New Shun 1730

Those who should have boarded the train have already boarded the train. Those who have not boarded the train now have neither interests related to the war nor much influence on the direction of the war.

In any case, the long-term interests related should be able to reduce the interest rate of the special national debt by two or three points. Of course, although it is actually similar to the court asking the salt merchants for money before, both are selling out the country's long-term interests in exchange for short-term gains, and converting long-term selling into short-term national debt interest reduction.

But now it is like this, whoever can raise money in the short term has the advantage. In the long run... In the long run, after the work of wiping the ass paper is done, it is even a question of how long Dashun can survive. Sell, you can sell.

There is no way, the whole world is very lame now, and there are only one or two countries that have the ability to levy a comprehensive middle-class tax and income tax.

Dashun is obviously not among them, and can only get money from the top chaebols, due to administrative capacity limitations.

As for Meng Songlu, who was passively involved, he was still excited and fantasized about showing his skills at this time, and he didn't know that he would soon be pushed to the moment of decision.

When the sandalwood trade, stained with the blood of the people, flourishes, and when the sandalwood corvée causes the local agricultural economy to collapse, he will choose which side he will stand on.

Right and wrong are a kind of bifurcation. Punishing Jie and Zhou, Confucian scholars can choose this way.

But right, there are still bifurcations.

Is it to close the country to the outside world, cancel the sandalwood trade, destroy all the sandalwood seedlings, stabilize the small peasant economy internally, and make it unprofitable, so that capital will be too lazy to come, and continue to close the door to build the three generations of rule?

Or open the trade, control the sandalwood profits as primitive accumulation, use the sandalwood profits as import funds, upgrade the development of agricultural handicrafts, and integrate into the new era economic system dominated by Dashun?

These are all "right", but they are completely different.

There, perhaps, Meng Songlu will understand earlier and more deeply than his fellow students and teachers that the fork in the road is in front of him.

When he and the chaebols of the Whale Sea Company left the room, they saw Quan Zheshen waiting.

Thinking about the straightforward allusions Liu Yu said, without hiding the words of perhaps the county, he just nodded at Quan Zheshen and said nothing.

Quan Zheshen responded to Meng Songlu's nod, tidied his clothes, and finally waited for the guards to call.

He had been waiting here for a long time, and witnessed with his own eyes the bright and gorgeous side of Songsu, which had completely opened up the gap.

After the guards searched him, they led him to the wooden door.

Quan Zheshen finally adjusted his clothes, swallowed his saliva, and walked into the room after the guards opened the door.

In any case, the old Tianchao system has not yet disintegrated, and the person he wants to see inside is already a duke in the Tianchao system.

How to meet etiquette, still have to abide by.

After kneeling, Quan Zheshen quietly raised his head and looked at the person in front of him with his own eyes.

"This is the man who opened the country's ports, caused the collapse of the countryside, land annexation, rampant currency, and the suffering of good people."

Thinking so in my heart, I saw a kind face, in the prime of life, not even the golden age of politicians, and looked very peaceful.

There is no aura of awe without anger, not to mention the fantasy of killing with eyes, nothing unusual.

At least, if you don't think about the man in front of you who fought from the Western Regions to Japan, and from Japan to the Lion Country outside the South Seas, then it looks no different.

I quietly retracted my gaze and was about to say something, but the other party spoke first.

"Anyway, a person with the heart to save the world and the people dared to run here on a private ship. This alone is commendable."

"Good, very good."

After a while, Quan Zheshen didn't dare to agree.

"Are you here to ask about the difference between kingship and hegemony? Or are you here to ask for help in enriching the people and the country or saving the people? Or do you think that this is basically the same thing and that it can be solved if the kingly way flourishes? Think it through and answer me."

It sounds like this is just a simple multiple-choice question.

But Quan Zheshen knows that this question is very difficult.

He has very complicated emotions towards Dashun and Liu Yu.

Dashun is not the Ming Dynasty, and it has no great favor to the survival of the Kingdom of Korea, at least not directly.

The ancients used medicine as an analogy and had already talked about this problem.

[The eldest brother sees the spirit of the disease and eliminates it before it has a shape, so his name is not known outside the family. The middle brother treats the disease, and it is in the hair, so his name is not known outside the neighborhood. Like Bian Que, he pierces the blood vessels, injects poison, and treats the skin, and his name is known to the princes at leisure]

Dashun actually solved a lot of things, but these things are not intuitive. When it comes to personal feelings...

Is it more touching to send troops to fight against the Japanese like the Ming Dynasty and keep the dynasty alive?

Or was it more touching that the Great Shun developed the navy, and the first war destroyed the possibility of Japan's unification, and there was no longer any danger of Japanese invasion?

Was it more touching when the Westerners rushed to Northeast Asia and directly affected Korea, and the Celestial Empire went to war in the name of defending its vassal?

Or was it more touching that the Celestial Empire built a large navy, took advantage of the European war to go to Southeast Asia, and isolated the Westerners from Malacca?

Undoubtedly, it was the former.

Specifically, what did Quan Zhe see in Liu Yu's eyes?

It was the opening of ports.

It was the emergence of currency.

It was the complete collapse of the original rural economy.

It was the unprecedented development of rural land annexation, and the good people were in hardship.

It was the Great Shun that cancelled the second-hand trade between Korea and Japan, and the more than one million taels of silver accumulated by Korea in secret trade with Japan were basically gone.

The difference between Korea and Dashun is too great. Dashun itself has thousands of years of history. Han and Tang, Song and Ming, these are completely different in terms of economy, taxation system, bureaucracy, etc., let alone countries in the same cultural circle.

Even if they are in the same cultural circle, which stage of this long history are they learning from?

In Korea, where slavery still exists and private land theoretically does not exist, many things are already on the verge of collapse.

The opening of ports has made the speed of this collapse happen in a form that is only slightly slower than the radical form of Jiangsu reform.

At least, Quan Zheshen and others think so, and his teacher taught him so.

But to be honest, Liu Yu still feels wronged.

Silver is currency.

Then cloth and rice are not currency?

It is obvious that Korea itself has the Datong rice system, the tribute is converted into rice system, and the military cloth system, which has led to the emergence of a certain equivalent and promoted the formation of a unified market.

The unified market has already appeared, and issuing coins is a matter of course.

The original tribute of fish, shrimp, skin, and medicinal materials were all converted into rice, but now they have to be converted into money. Isn't that a mess?

The opening of the port to allow currency, such as currency, to enter the market can only be said to have replaced rice and cloth as currency, but it cannot be said that Liu Yu made currency, private ownership, and commodity exchange appear in Korea. He didn't have the ability to do that.

It was just a fucking coincidence that the economic recovery period of Korea after the invasion of Japanese pirates and the war in the late Ming Dynasty was completed and the commodity economy was developing.

This makes it seem as if everything was caused by him.

Since it was a coincidence, it was originally just a "catalyst", but now it seems to have become the "root cause", which is like yellow mud falling off the crotch.

Quan Zheshen is still young, and his belief and research in Confucianism are not so firm.

Even he was not very firm at all, otherwise he would not have rushed towards Christianity so fast in history. He said that he held mass evening prayer just to practice one of the meanings of "respect" of Song Confucianism, and he did not recite the "Rosary" but Zhu Xi's "Jingzhai Zhen", so it is hard to say whether it is true.

Many people admire strength and wealth.

From the time Quan Zheshen boarded the ship and witnessed the drastic changes in Jiangsu, the most eye-catching thing he saw was the dead bodies he saw in Songjiang when he first arrived.

The rest were all rich and beautiful.

Although there were no jaw-dropping things such as ironclad ships, the standardized brick and stone residential areas downstairs for the middle class, vendors, small merchants, and employees built because of the destruction of Yangzhou and Huai'an and the large number of people migrating south were still very shocking.

As for the dogs and pigs eating human food without knowing how to be self-disciplined, which brought a huge shock to his young mind, let alone.

Now Liu Yu asked him directly what he was going to do.

So after a little hesitation, he gave the answer of "saving the world and enriching the people".

If it could be as prosperous as Songjiang, it would be fine.

He had sneaked from Seoul to Dashun, and had only seen Jiangsu, and that was Jiangsu where foreign trade had expanded rapidly after radical reforms.

As for those remote areas of Dashun, or areas with inconvenient transportation and extremely intensified conflicts between people and land, he had never seen them. He felt that Gansu might be slightly worse than Songjiang Prefecture, but it would not be much worse.

After giving this answer, Quan Zheshen knelt down again, touching his forehead to the ground and pleading: "Duke Xingguo has the ability to enrich Jiangsu, please teach me the strategy of enriching the people."

"I came from a small country in the eastern vassal state, and I want to learn from the great scholar. Mr. Mianzhuang said that the way for our country is in Songsu. I risked my life to see you, and I beg you to give me some advice."

"Our country has always been loyal and obedient, and the heart of the vassal is not two, I only hope that the Duke will remember Jizi's virtue and benevolence and give me guidance."

Quan Zheshen also gave it his all. At first, he wanted to take the opportunity to do something, but when he really came here, under Liu Yu's urging, he finally won because of his desire for strength.

Liu Yu actually didn't know Quan Zheshen, including his teacher. Dashun had a lot of schools on his side, and it was impossible for him to know all of them. He just had some intersections with the Yanli School and the Textual Research School.

However, since they were from the same cultural circle and were Confucian scholars, he had a general understanding of their ideas.

Basically, they were going back to the old three things. A variant of the well-field system or the equal-field system.

That was it.

On the most basic and core economic element, land, I have never heard of anyone going beyond this circle.

And they were almost certainly all "utopian" people, counting on the spontaneous reform of the upper class, or doing it without touching the interests of the landlords, or with improvements that the landlords could accept.

Point a finger.

Reduce the tax on official land and increase the tax on private land, so that the landowners would voluntarily contribute to the official land.

Set a time frame, after which the land cannot be bought and sold.

Redeem it in 30 years.

Beg the landlords to be kind and voluntarily rent the land to the tenants forever.

After the established line is drawn, encourage officials and civilians to report those who cross the line and continue to merge. The civilians will report it to the civilians, and the officials will report it to the officials.

...This is basically the best of the least ridiculous ideas. If it can be higher than this, then there is absolutely no such thing.

Liu Yu can clearly say that Wang Yuan's theory of only farmers owning land, the theory of awarding honors to industrial and commercial enterprises by paying taxes, and the theory of urban housing tax are the highest versions under the impact of traditional culture and industrial and commercial development.

The Confucian scholars of the Joseon Dynasty have few brains, and they all learn the same things. It's just that when one side starts to study practical knowledge, the other side is still doing Zhu Xi's school of thought, but the core remains unchanged, and they will definitely not be able to jump out of this circle.

However, Dashun was also a cultural motherland. Any solution that the Confucian scholars of the vassal states could think of had already been thought of by Dashun.

Even in the case of Korea, there was no need for Ming and Shun Confucianism, as the economic foundation was too advanced.

If you flipped through books directly from the Tang and Song dynasties, you would probably find the same ideas that they had been thinking about for thirty years.

It was pure reinventing the wheel.

Liu Yu could not go to these vassal states in the cultural circle to find feasible solutions for Confucianism.

Therefore, it was naturally impossible for him to know much about the great Confucian scholars of Korea.

However, since this person had sneaked in and went straight to Cheng Tingzuo and others, Liu Yu had a rough idea of ​​his teacher's general ideas.

Liu Yu did not understand the difference between qi, reason, and heart, and did not know that both schools were practical studies, but they were very different in these philosophical constructions.

But for economic demands, ownership, and land system, it was really like a fish looking for fish and a shrimp looking for shrimp. With a rough guess, I can narrow the circle to a level that is almost understandable.